{"id":5976,"date":"2016-01-15T16:44:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T00:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/?p=5976"},"modified":"2016-01-15T16:50:54","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T00:50:54","slug":"how-the-honda-rc213v-s-is-built","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/2016\/01\/how-the-honda-rc213v-s-is-built\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Honda RC213V-S is Built"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much like the Ducati Desmosedici, Honda is bringing to the public a street version of their MotoGP bike for the public. With a $184,000 price tag and a limited run of 200 units, it would not have been economical to invest in mass-production tooling and assembly procedures. <\/p>\n<p>Instead, Honda is building these bikes entirely by hand with a small team of specialized workers. The video below gives a look at workshop, I always geek out over stuff like this. Areas of interests include 1:32, the chassis welding and jig; 1:50, the sheet metal shaping for the head stock; and 2:12, everything appears to be hand welded. <\/p>\n<p>Although I gave up my motorcycling days, I still like to dabble in it and observe the trends from time to time.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WqzvkphNNY4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much like the Ducati Desmosedici, Honda is bringing to the public a street version of their MotoGP bike for the public. With a $184,000 price tag and a limited run of 200 units, it would not have been economical to invest in mass-production tooling and assembly procedures. Instead, Honda is building these bikes entirely by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5976"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5980,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976\/revisions\/5980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}